From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 6 12:35:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01016 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eecis.udel.edu (ren.eecis.udel.edu [128.175.7.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00932 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from <@eecis.udel.edu:alexandr@ren.eecis.udel.edu>) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 12:35:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "<"<@eecis.udel.edu:alexandr@ren.eecis.udel.edu> Message-Id: <199805061935.MAA00932@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from localhost by eecis.udel.edu id aa14416; 6 May 1998 15:33 EDT To: Tamiji Homma Cc: wing@cc.nsysu.edu.tw, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How do I use IDE HD. more than 8G Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store Reply-To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In Reply to Your Message of Wed, 06 May 1998 09: 46:30 PDT Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:33:28 -0400 From: Jerry Alexandratos Message-ID: <199805061533.aa14416@eecis.udel.edu> : 1. Bring up FreeBSD on 6.4GB (wd0) single user and mount /var, /usr manually. : 2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd2 bs=512 count=100 ; wipe out partition table. : BE EXTRA CAREFUL....wd2 not wd0 : 3. allocate entire disk(the first partition) for FreeBSD. (fdisk) : 4. disklabel -e wd2 (I'm not sure of the exact options, manpage it yourself) : enter what you have calculated for /, /var, /usr, and swap. : 5. newfs /dev/wd2a, wd2e, wd2f ... Okay, quick question for the lazily impaired (eg slackers like me). Couldn't you mount both disks like you said, boot with an install floppy and let the install program take care of the partitioning, disklabelling, and formatting? Also, are there any suggestions on how to set the geometry (is the default that say the install floppy would generate okay, or should one go with ???/64/63)? Thanks. --Jerry 8) Jerry Alexandratos % - % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message